| Show POLES DRIVEN VE TOrb TO TOGE GE ER rb TO WORK Hun Commanders Commander's Brutal Order Issued to Conquered and H Helpless ss J People ople Every Bodied Able d Man Miln Forced to Leave We HIe Starving Family and nd Labor Under Shocking Conditions Condi Condl- for the Oppressor w lo I T rj r rT T 1 If t This I 1 have seen scan I could not j Jt t 4 J believe it I had seen it d dH fr to- 4 H through and and md through For soy soy- t oral eral weeks I lived with it I 44 4 l 4 4 4 went all about It and 2nd back of w t s it inside and out of It w was s K shown to me until me-until until finally I IJ fi J came to realize that tha the incredible t 3 ble was true It Is monstrous 1 5 it is unthinkable but it exists 4 It io is the Prussian system F. F. F C. C M i t O- O 1 Y 1 F. F C. C Wal Walcott ott a n member of the United States food administration and during the tho time America was feeding tl the civilian llIan populations of Belgium Serbia and northern France an nn assistant assist assist- tint lint of Mr 11 Hoover er In these inva invaded ed countries s has pictured in a 1 graphic way ay the con conditions he found among the the people it was his duty to help After descrIbing the terrible conditions conditions conditions condi condi- In Poland in 1010 1316 the millions that were d dying ing of starvation the hundreds of thousands tho of defenseless people that had hall been ruthlessly lessly cut down oWn by the sword of the German conqueror conqueror con con- he hc sa says s 's In Iii that situation the German commander com com- mander issued issue a 1 proclamation Every ery able bo bodied able led Pole was bidden to Germany Germany Germany Ger Ger- many to wor work If any re refused let no other Pole give glye him to to cat eat not so much as a n mouthful under penalty of German military law This is the the choice the German government gay gov eminent gives to the conquered Pole to the husband and father of a starving starving stan ing family Leave your family family or or die or 01 survive e as the case may be Leave your our country which is destro destroyed e to wor work wort in ill Germany for its further de de- If you are obstinate we shall see that you surely starve Staying Ing with his folk foil he lie is doomed and they are not saved the fattier and husband can do o nothing for them he lie only adds to their risk nn and suffering Leaving them he lie will be cut off from his family thc they may never ne Hear hear from him a again ain nor he the from flom them Gelman Germany Germany Ger Gel man many will set him to work that a German German Ger Ger- man workman an may be released to fight against his own land and people Ho TIc Hoshall shall be lo lodged ged in barracks behind barbed wire entanglements under armed armed guard He Hc shall sleep on the bariC bare ground with a single thin blan blan- ket Iet l et He shall be scantily fed and his earnings shall be taken from him to to to pa pay for his food That is the choice which the German German German Ger Ger- man government go offers to p. p a proud sensitive e strung high people Death or cl slavery When a Pole gave c me that proclamation tion Hon I was boiling nut But I had to rest restrain restrain re re- st strain ain myself I was as practically the theon on only foreign civilian in the tho country and find I wanted to get food to the people ople That was what I was there for and I must not for nn any cause jeopardize the theun un undertaking I asked Governor General Gen Gen- General eral von on Can this be true Really lineally I cannot sa say lIe ho replied i I have e signed feigned so many proclamations I ask Isk General Von on Kries So J 1 asked General von yon KrIes GenS Gen S oral cial this thIs thIs' is a civilized people Can this be bc true Yes he lie sai said It is true true with anair anair an air all of or adding Why not I dared not trust m myself to speak peak j jr I T turned to togo go Wait Valt ho he said Anti And lie he e c to me me- how Germany Get many official official Germany gar r regards s the state of subject pe peoples ples It is Is hard luu for us to imagine such a ac c condition n In America as Mr Walcott tt has de described as existing sUng in m rid Hun dt Poland ohm lt an and yet ct that is just what would woul exist sh should our bo boys s 's and nd the boys of our 11 allies ames now fighting in France France- fail to defeat f at the soldiers of ofis this is empire This fair fth country countr country coun coun- tr try of aS curs be ll made Into a u Ge Ger- Ger Jon province our 11 people would behe belie be behe he lie slaves sla of the Junkers of Germany subject to the thc beastly whims of th the officers of f th the German army almy In Ia no na has haser er engaged en en- 1 r in which America ever everen have hi the stakes t kes been so great conflict Should we rye as ns in th this s present by hy any ony ch chance lo lose o j should the Hun by any chance win our l liberties erUes our h happiness everything Americans ms hold de dear would be bo lost I r |
